Having spent more than a decade in academia, it has been almost inherent to me to think of learning as exercising your IQ, thereby improving you practical and technical knowledge. It is quantifiable and can easily be described on your CV. The mentor experience opened a whole new world of education I had neglected: studying my own emotional intelligence (EI) and boosting my self-awareness. Fully balanced growth requires exercising both IQ and EI. This is my account of several very different mentorships, all of which have contributed to the speed of my personal entrepreneurial journey.